Is there one word which may serve as a rule of practice for all one's life?" The Master said, "Is not RECIPROCITY such a word? What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others. Ethical Addresses - Page 681904Full view - About this book
| Frederic William Farrar - 1871 - 232 pages
...Yung (Doctrine of the Mean, ch. xx.); and still better in the Analects, when Tze Kung asks if there be one word which may serve as a rule of practice for all one's life, and is answered, "Is not reciprocity (altruism} such a word? What you do not want done to yourself,... | |
| Lucius Edwin Smith, Henry Griggs Weston - 1872 - 524 pages
...Confucius's version of the golden rule, of which so much has been made. " Tsze King asked, saying, ' Is there one word which may serve as a rule of practice...for all one's life ? ' " The master said : "Is not KECIPROCITY such a word ? What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others." Again, when... | |
| Giles Badger Stebbins - 1872 - 408 pages
...consists only in having the heart right and in loving one's neighbor as one's self." When he was asked, "Is there one word which may serve as a rule of practice for all one's life?" he answered, "Is not * Reciprocity ' such a word? what you wish done to yourself, do to others. ' By... | |
| Giles Badger Stebbins - 1872 - 416 pages
...consists only in having the heart right and in loving one's neighbor as one's self." When he was asked, "Is there one word which may serve as a rule of practice for all one's life?" he answered, "Is not 'Reciprocity' such a word? what you wish done to yourself, do to others. ' By... | |
| 1880 - 592 pages
...not wish men to do to me, I also wish not to do to men." A favorite disciple asked, " Is there not one word which may serve as a rule of practice for all one's life?" Confucius answered: "Is not reciprocity such a word ? What you do not want done to yourself, do not... | |
| James Legge - 1861 - 540 pages
...for it. The maxim occurs also twice in the Analects. IB Book XV. xxiii., Tsze-kung asks if there be one word which may serve as a rule of practice for all one's life, and is answered, " Is not reciprocity such a word ? What you do not want done to yourself do not do... | |
| Rolander Guy McClellan - 1872 - 794 pages
...we first find recorded that earliest manifestation of nature's sweetest voice, The Golden Rule : " What you do not want done to yourself do not do to others ;" which, in modified and altered forms, has been woven into sacred history and laid down by Christian... | |
| Johannes von Gumpach - 1872 - 924 pages
...urge here, with the Hon. Mr. Burlingame, "the great doctrine uttered by Confucius 2,300 years ago, ' What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others ' " ; nor use the moral argument, that a policy which tends to retard the civilisation of the Chinese... | |
| 1873 - 384 pages
...word which may serve as a rule of practise for all one's life, and is answered : Is not redprocity such a word? What you do not want done to yourself, do not do to others. The same disciple appears V, 11, telling Confucius that he was practising the lesson. He sajs : What I... | |
| Ross Winans - 1873 - 496 pages
...there was one word which would serve as a rule of practice for all one's life, and was answered, " Is not reciprocity such a word ?" What you do not want done to yourself, do not unto others. The people in China, as elsewhere, believe, what is the beginning and end of all wisdom,... | |
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